SimondeMontfort, 6th Earl of Leicester was born circa 1208.2 He was the son of SimondeMontfort, 5th Earl of Leicester and AlicedeMontmorency. He married EleanorofEngland, daughter of John I 'Lackland', King of England and Isabellad'Angoulême, on 7 January 1238.1 He died on 4 August 1265 at Evesham, Worcestershire, EnglandG, from wounds received in action.3 He gained the title of 6th Earl of Leicester in 1218.1 He fought in the Battle of Lewes on 14 May 1264, where he captured King Henry III and his son, Edward 'Longshanks.3' He was created 1st Earl of Chester [England] on 24 December 1264, after capturing King Henry III and Edward 'Longshanks', and extorting the Earldom from them.4 He fought in the Battle of Evesham on 4 August 1265.1 On his death, he was attainted, and the Earldom of Chester reverted to its former owners.3 King Henry III and Simon quarrelled, and Simon defeated King Henry's army at Lewes in Sussex in 1264, making Prince Edward a prisoner and hostage. Simon's triumph was brief, however. Edward escaped, raised an army and defeated Simon at Evesham in 1265. Simon was slain in battle at Evesham. In his year of power, however, Simon had summoned a 'parliament' or conference of his leading supporters, and, by an innovation not repeated until 1295, also two burgesses and two knights from each of a number of boroughs and shires. This parliament was not meant to provide a substitute for royal government. Simon was not opposed to that, but he wanted tom see strong government. Had he lived, he would have seen how apt a pupil Prince Edward was.